Soap-dish.



' H. P. WEAVER.

SOAP DISH.

. APPLICATION FILED OCT. 4, I9l5.

1,205,066. Patented Nov. 14, 1916.

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SOAP-DISH.

Specification of Letters Patent,

Patented Nov. 14:, 1916.

Application filed October 4, 1915. Serial Nb. 53,864.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY P. WEAVER, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of Belleville, in the county of St. Clair and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Soap- Dishes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to soap-dishes and has for its object to provide a sanitary soapdish of simple, cheap, and novel construction, which will preserve a cake of soap placed therein from wasting when not in use and which will permit same to be quickly drained dry of water and will admit the access of air to the bottom as well as to the sides and top of said cake of soap.

Another object is to provide a soap-dish having a slidably removable drain-pan, which may be emptied and cleaned without disturbing the cake of soap supported in the dish.

A further object is to provide a soap-dish having a removable drain-pan, which is provided with an overflow opening so that in case the emptying of the drain-pan is neglected the water therein will overflow through said opening without coming in contact with the cake of soap in the dish.

A cake of soap, after having been applied for lavatory purposes and the like and then placed in an ordinary closed-bottom soapdish of well-known construction, will not dry and the bottom, at least, of the cake of soap will rest in the water drained from said cake into the bottom of the dish, causing the soap to waste while not in use and making of it an unsanitary, wet, and slimy object very disagreeable to'handle for any purpose. In attempting to obviate these objectionable features of the old-fashioned soap-dishes, various soap-dishes of other constructions have been made the principal features of which are that a perforated soap-supporting plate is provided with a drain-receptacle or the like underneath said plate, said plate being supported in spaced relation to the bottom of the drain-receptacle, but in soapdishes of this construction heretofore provided the objectionable features of the oldfashioned soap-dishes have not been entirely obviated and theypossess other objectionable features. For instance, the perforated plate is usually adapted to rest loosely in or on the drain-receptacle and one partor the I other, most frequently the plate, becomes lost or misplaced, and, also should the emptying of the drain-receptacle of the usual construction be neglected, the dirty and unsanitary Waste water therein will rise to alevel where same will come in contact with the cake of soap on the supportingplate and the objectionable conditions of soap in an old-fashioned soap-dish will result. Moreover, in soap-dishes of a construction wherein the drain-receptacle is rigidly borne by one end' of an arm or wallbracket to support the device upon an adjacent wall or the like, the emptying of the drain-receptacle is attended with considerable inconvenience, for the soap and the supportingplate must be removed from said receptacle and the contents of the receptacle must be mopped out with a sponge or the like, and in cases where the drain-receptacle is removably attached to said arm or bracket by means of pins or the'like so that the said receptacle may be removed and the accumulated waste water dumped out of it, the device is constructed with various small parts that may easily be lost or misplaced besides having the objectionable feature of requiring time, some skill, and labor to dismount and reassemble the parts each time that it is desired to empty and clean the drain-receptacle.

An advantage of the soap-dish embodying the present invention is that it consists of few parts. of simple and cheap construction readily assembled to form a sanitary soapdish wherein air will circulate freely beneath the perforated soap-supporting plate and Will at all times have access to the bottom of a cake of soap resting thereon, thus causing said cake of soap to dry quickly and to remain dry and in a sanitary condition while not in use.

Another advantage is that the perforated soap-supporting plate of the soap-dish of this invention is attached'to the drain-pan, which pan is slidably removable from its normal position beneath said plate, thus providing that the parts are normally held to gether in assembled relation and, therefore, do not readily become lost or misplaced and providing, further, that the pan may be readily and conveniently removed from its normal position and emptied of accumulated waste water. Furthermore, the drain-pan being provided with an overflow openlng,

the waste water therein will never come in contact with the soap on the soap-supporting plate, even though the emptying of the edge of the perforated soap-supporting plate having been broken away; Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view, on a reduced scale,

on a line substantially centrally of Fig. 1 and running through the front and rear ends ofthe soap-dish, a cake of soap being shown in dot-and-dash outline; and Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view, on a reduced scale, on a line across Fig. 1 and running substantiallyparallel to and intermediate the front and rear ends of the soap-dish, said view being .shownlooking toward the rear end of said Fig. 1, a cake of soap being shown in dot-and-dash outline.

Plate 1, which may be made of any suitable material, such, for instance, as sheet metal, is provided with a plurality of openings 2 therethrough, and the portion of said plate bearing said openings may be depressed or countersunk or dished, as shown in the drawings, leaving an elevated marginal portion '3 surrounding said dished opening-bearing portion, the shoulders 4 between said elevated marginal portions and said dished portion being adapted to form a more or less shallow retaining wall above the bottom of said dished portion so that a cake of soap-5 dropped or placed upon said dished portion will more readily remain thereon over said openings and will i not readily slide off from its proper place on said plate 1, it being, of course, understood that plate 1 may, if desired, be a Hat member with an even-level upper surface bearing said openings without having the dished depression shown in the drawings. The rearward edge of said plate may bear a hanger 6 or the like extending upwardly from said edge at substantially a rightangle thereto, said hanger being adapted to be attached to a wall or the like (not shown) by any suitable means, such, for instance, as by means of nails or screws (not shown) or the like through'one or more openings 7 borne by said hanger, the purpose of said hanger being the well-known one of providing means for supporting said plate borne thereby adjacent the wall or the like in a position convenientl within reach from the wash-stand, wash asin 01: other lavatory vessel (not shown) in connection with which the cake of soap 5 is to be used, it being, of course, understood that any suitable .means, such, for instance, as a bracket or an arm of any desired shape and The two opposite lateral edges or plate 1 may beargrooves or runways 8, which grooves or runways maybe formed by looping a portion of the material adjacent said edges toward the under side of said. plate, said grooves or runways being adapted to engage flanges 9 slid'ably therein, saidflanges being borne by the upper edges oi opposite side-walls of drain-pan 10, said drain-pan being adapted to be removably borne slidably underneath plate 1 by means of said flanges and said grooves or runways and said drain-pan, when in normal position underneath said plate as shown in the drawings, being adapted to receive the drippings or drainings' through openings 2 from a cake of soap 5 supported on said plate, the lateral walls 11 of said drain-pan being of any desired height adapted to space plate 1 a suitable distance away from the bottom of the drain-pan for the purposes of this invention.

It is, of course, understood that the relative positions of grooves or runways 8 and flanges 9 may be changed from the construction shown in the drawings to a construction wherein similar grooves or run ways are borne by the upper edges of opposite lateral walls 11 of drain-pan 10 and adapted slidably to engage therein similar flanges borne by opposite lateral edges of plate 1.

An overflow opening 12 may be provided for drain-pan 10, a suitable construction for providing said opening being shown in the drawings and best seen in Figs. 2 and 3 wherein the rear wall 13 of the drain-pan is of less height than the other lateral walls of said drain-pan so that, when said drain pan is in the normal position in association with plate 1, as shown in the drawings, there will be an opening between the upper edge of said rear wall and the adjacent under side of said plate, thus forming overflow opening 12 adapted to communicate outwardly with the interior of said drainpan in order to provide an overflow outlet for waste water or drainings entering said drain-pan through openings 2 with the result that the highest level of said waste wateror drainings will never reach the bottom or underside of said plate or come in contact with a cake of soap 5 resting upon the upper side of plate 1.

In order to; limit the rearward movement of drain-pan in sliding same to normal position beneath plate 1 and openings 2 by means of flanges 9 in slidable engagement in grooves or runways 8, the upper edge of the front side wall of drain-pan 10 may be adapted to engage an adjacent shoulder 4, as shown in the drawings, to serve as a stop for the further rearward movement of said drain-pan, it being, of course, understood that any other suitable stop of well-known construction may be provided in substitution for the construction herein described.

A suitable, economical, and simple construction for manufacturing a soap-dish embodying the present invention, is one wherein plate 1, with openings 2 therein, grooves or runways 8, and hanger 6 with one or more openings 7 therein, is stamped out of one piece of sheet metal and finished into the desired completed form by one continuous operation, including the forming of bead 14 adjacent the forward edge of plate 1 and flanges 15 borne by the free edges of hanger 6, said bead and said flanges being adapted to strengthen and stiffen the parts associated therewith. Drain-pan 10 with flanges 9 borne by the upper edges of opposite lateral walls of said drain-pan may, also, be stamped and formed out of one piece of sheet-metal in one continuous operation and the upper edge of the forward wall of said drain-pan may be provided with a lapped portion 16, Fig. 2, adapted to strengthen and stiffen the structure of said wall.

It will, of course, be readily understood that the particular shape in general outline of the assembled soap-dish of this invention depicted in the accompanying drawings is merely by way of illustration and that said shape may be varied in any desired manner to form a soap-dish having a perforated soap-supporting plate bearing a slidably removable drain-pan beneath same. Moreover, various changes in the arrangement and combination of parts may be made without departing from the nature and spirit of this invention.

I claim:

A soap-dish member having a horizontally disposed soap receiving portion and a verti'cally disposed attaching portion, said horizontally disposed portion having a perforated depressed portion bounded by retaining walls and the forwardly extending side edges thereof bent downwardly and inwardly to form guideways, in combination with a drip pan having side, end and bottom walls, the side walls of said pan being formed with flanges adapted to slide in said guideways, the upper edge of the rear wall of said pan terminating below the plane of said horizontal portion.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature.

HENRY P. WEAVER.

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